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MacSurfer's Archive: Tuesday, December 31, 2019
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Apple and other tech companies may face restrictions in Russia due to new protectionist legislation" 9to5Mac 12:52 PM
  • "Tech that defined the decade: A not-at-all-comprehensive look at the tech innovations of the 2010s." Engadget 11:35 AM
  • "Woman uses iPhone's Emergency SOS in attempted assault" Cult of Mac 7:41 AM
  • "October 2019 in review: AirPods Pro & lots of OS updates - but no Apple event" AppleInsider 3:46 PM
  • "September 2019: iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPad, and Series 5 Apple Watch" AppleInsider 7:48 AM
  • "ToTok co-founder issues direct appeal to Apple and Google to reinstate app" Arabian Business 9:17 AM
  • "Jimmy Iovine Knows Music and Tech. Here's Why He's WorriedThe record executive who made the leap to Silicon Valley looks back on the decade in the music business, and sees a major problem on the horizon." New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 3:30 PM
  • "Jimmy Iovine reveals what's wrong with streaming music, talks Steve Jobs" AppleInsider 6:52 PM
  • "Smartwatch water resistance: The technology demystified" Digital Trends 2:14 PM
  • "Dickinson — Past Meets Present | Apple TV+" YouTube 7:47 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "Consumer spending on mobile games grew 8% to $210 million on Christmas" VentureBeat 6:50 PM
  • "IRS Reforms Free File Program, Drops Agreement Not to Compete With TurboTax: The changes come after ProPublica's reporting showed how TurboTax maker Intuit tricked customers into paying for tax prep they could have gotten for free." ProPublica 3:47 PM
  • "IRS stops firms like TurboTax from hiding free tax-filing products in searches/Also: The IRS is no longer banned from creating its own online filing system." CNET 8:45 PM
  • "5G Underwhelms in Its First Big Test: In South Korea, where the next-generation wireless network has been rolled out widely, download speeds have risen but many users aren't impressed" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 2:14 PM
  • "President Trump signs anti-robocall TRACED Act into law: It could reduce (but not stop) the flood of spam calls." Engadget 2:18 PM
  • "TRACED Act signed into law, putting robocallers on notice" TechCrunch 2:13 PM
  • "AnandTech Year In Review 2019: Solid State Drives" AnandTech 8:38 AM
  • "Your train is on time thanks to big data" The Next Web 8:10 AM
  • "Samsung is taking a page out of Apple's playbook by opening stores across the US. Here's how retail spaces from the competing tech giants compare." Business Insider 8:03 AM
  • "Tech that died in 2019: We bid farewell to... 2019 was the end of the line for products from Google, Microsoft, Samsung and others." PCWorld 8:03 AM
  • "The Decade We Learned There's No Such Thing as Privacy Online: And a corrupt U.S. government seems incapable and unwilling to do anything about it." Vice 8:02 AM
  • "Singapore tax on overseas digital services kicks in tomorrow" ZDNet 8:01 AM
  • "LG's answer to foldable phones may be a detachable display that wraps around the phone" Mashable 8:01 AM
  • "Sonos gives a lame reason for bricking older devices in 'Recycle Mode'" Engadget 7:43 AM
  • "Ghosts in the Clouds: Inside China's Major Corporate Hack/A Journal investigation finds the Cloud Hopper attack was much bigger than previously known" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 7:38 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "MacVoices #19258: Rosemary Orchard Takes Control of Shortcuts" MacVoices 7:21 PM
  • "2019 In Review – TMO Daily Observations 2019-12-31" The Mac Observer 12:45 PM
  • "Let's Talk iOS 324: What we want to see from Apple in 2020" iDownload Blog 7:48 AM